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[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 8 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

It's basically impossible to equate D&D to real history because you can't account for the differences in supply and demand (or even the prevalence of different natural materials) between medieval Europe and 15th century DR Faerûn, let alone account for the fact that wizards can literally make gold. The best we have to go off of is the official rules describing the different lifestyle tiers and how much they cost on average.

The average real life modern bar costs, what, $25,000–50,000 a month to run? Based on a lifestyle expense equivalent of $50–100 per gp, they probably see somewhere between 10 and 30 gp per day. And that's just gold piece equivalent, most of it is probably in copper or silver pieces